I love Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is the Greatest Show with John Cleese
Monty Python gets all the attention but for absolute British comedy genius from John Cleese you must watch Fawlty Towers.
What's Fawlty Towers you say?
Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Only twelve episodes were ever produced (two series, with six episodes each), but the programme has had a lasting and powerful legacy.
The setting is in a fictional hotel called Fawlty Towers, located in the seaside town of Torquay, in Devon, on the "English Riviera" (which was where the hotel that provided Cleese with the inspiration for the series was situated). The show was written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, both of whom played main characters. The first series, in 1975, was produced and directed by John Howard Davies, and the second, in 1979, was produced by Douglas Argent and directed by Bob Spiers.
The writers were married to each other at the time of the first series. By the second, they had been divorced for almost a year, after ten years of union (1968?78).Britains Best Sitcom - The case for Fawlty Towers, BBC Documentary presented by Jack Dee, broadcast 24 January 2004
In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first.BFI TV100, URL accessed 14 June 2006. It was also voted fifth in the BBCs "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll in 2004.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/winner.shtml Britain's Best Sitcom Top 10]. URL accessed 14 June 2006.
Fawlty Towers vs Monty Python
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Fawlty Towers is the Greatest Show with John Cleese
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No way, Monty Python is better!
NOTaLoony says:
fawlty towers is more like laughingish, but monty python is more ingenious and funnier and the perfect comedy show! Fawlty towers may be nearly perfect, but monty python ('s flying circus) gets the win
Posted May 14, 2008
Hinutech says:
No way. While Fawlty Towers is excellent, it doesn't come close to the excellence that is Monty Python.
Posted April 19, 2008
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John Cleese is good in everything, but this is his masterpiece. "Don't mention the war!" Posted June 12, 2008 |
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I have never even heard of Fawlty Towers but thanks for introducing me to it. Posted April 19, 2008 |
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I've never seen Fawlty Towers before. I'm a fan of Monty Python, but now I'll have to check out Fawlty Towers! Posted April 08, 2008 |
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